New historical research is challenging centuries of assumptions about why the Bayeux Tapestry — one of the most iconic pieces ...

Archaeologists excavating a mysterious medieval cemetery in Wales have uncovered compelling evidence that the burial ground was part of an early female religious community. The discovery of a possible ...

Early Christian icons may have derived some of their stylistic elements from pagan religious portraits, according to some ...

By engaging with art imaginatively, we can encounter that deeper reality that the Surrealists have always sought in their artwork.

Ancient Nubian civilizations practiced something that might shock modern sensibilities - they tattooed the faces of infants and toddlers as young as seven months old. A new study using advanced ...

Ancient Nubians who lived between the 7th and 9th centuries tattooed the cheeks and foreheads of their infants and toddlers. This surprising discovery was made during a systematic survey of more than ...

Numerous customs and cultural practices of the Minoan civilization from Crete have been preserved through the Christian Orthodox religion.

Master of Saint Augustine, "Scenes from the Life of St. Augustine of Hippo" (c. 1490), central panel of a triptych Belgium, Bruges (all photos courtesy the Morgan Library & Museum unless otherwise ...

Beneath the ruins of Old Dongola in Sudan, archaeologists uncovered the remains of what may be the largest cathedral ever found in Nubia. Once the capital of the Christian Kingdom of Makuria, Old ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Manger scenes displayed around Christmastime usually feature an ox and an ass beside the infant Jesus. According to the Gospel of Luke, Mary placed her child in a manger – an animal ...